Dr Jennifer Redmond

Action Chair

Associate Professor, Maynooth University

Twentieth Century Irish History at the Department of History, Maynooth University

Jennifer Redmond is Associate Professor in Twentieth Century Irish History at the Department of History, Maynooth University and Chair of the HIDDEN COST Action. Her research interests are in migration, the history of identity documentation, citizenship, gender and women’s histories.

She has served as Vice Chair of the Royal Irish Academic Historical Studies Committee and as President of the Women’s History Association of Ireland and is on the executive committee of the Irish Historical Society. She sits on the Editorial Boards for Women’s History Review and the Documents in Irish Foreign Policy series, a joint initiative between the National Archives and the Royal Irish Academy and the executive committee for Irish Historical Studies. She is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society (London) and the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies (QUB). Her publications include the edited collection (with Mary McAuliffe) The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland (2024) and Irish Women in the First World War Era: Irish Women’s Lives 1914-18 (with Elaine Farrell, Routledge: 2020), and Moving Histories: Irish Women’s Migration to Britain, from Independence to Republic (Liverpool University Press, 2018). She has a particular interest in the Second World War, the Irish in Britain and teaches and researches in the area of modern Ireland with a focus on women and gender histories. She contributes regularly to press, popular history radio shows and to historical documentaries.

Selected Publications:

Redmond, Jennifer, McAuliffe, Mary (Ed.): The politics of gender and sexuality in modern Ireland. 0000, ISBN: 978-1-80151-139-1.
Elaine Farrell, Jennifer Redmond: Irish women in the First World War era: Irish women’s lives, 1914-18. In: 2020.
Jennifer Redmond: Moving Histories: Irish women’s emigration to Britain from independence to republic. Liverpool University Press, 2018, (available open access).
Aisling Shalvey: Career, Proximity to National Socialism, and Post-War Reception of Dr Kurt Hofmeier, Director of the Children’s Clinic at the Reichsuniversität Straßburg (1941-1944). In: Revue d’Allemagne et des pays de langue allemande, vol. 54, no. 54-1, pp. 253–268, 2022.
Aisling Shalvey: Commentary: The diagnostic label of Asperger’s in historical perspective–a commentary on Kehinde et al.(2021). In: Child and Adolescent Mental Health, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 286–287, 2021.